[LAD] snd-usb-audio dying on jackd xruns

Rods Bobavich rodnisms at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 15:44:20 UTC 2011


I got a new PCI USB 2.0 card and now I'm running Jackd at -n2 -p64. I
figured this was a hardware glitch. Thanks for confirming...

I'll still run debug on this and report. Which kernel did you want me to
test?

...Rods ;-)


On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 01:22, Clemens Ladisch <clemens at ladisch.de> wrote:

> Rods Bobavich wrote:
> > USB interface is any one of the M-Audio Line. FastTrack USB, FastTrack
> Pro,
> > MobilePre USB... In other words multiple interfaces have been tested.
> This
> > problem is specific to this machine...
> >
> > ALSA urb.c:480: frame 0 active: -75
>
> Thank you for not mentioning this message on alsa-devel.
>
> In the context of USB, the error code -75 means "babble", which is
> a technical term from the USB specification that means that the device
> sent some data at a time when it shouldn't (or at least the controller
> thinks so).
>
> > ALSA urb.c:146: timeout: still 7 active urbs..
> > ALSA urb.c:146: timeout: still 2 active urbs..
> > ALSA pcm.c:223: 4:2:1: usb_set_interface failed
>
> As a result of that, the USB controller driver gets wedged.
>
>
> This looks like a hardware problem with your USB controller.  Please try
> the latest kernel; there were added some workarounds recently.
>
> You might also try connecting the device through a hub (but there are
> some bugs in the EHCI driver which might make it think that it cannot
> schedule enough bandwidth for full duplex).
>
>
> > CE: hpet increased min_delta_ns to 7500 nsec
> >
> > It seems that the error happened about the time of the hpet increase. Do
> we
> > have a timer problem?
>
> No, this has nothing to do with USB.  This message typically occurs on
> AMD system with C1E enabled, and is harmless.
>
>
> Regards,
> Clemens
> --
> Don't anthropomorphize computers; they don't like it.
>
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